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Families, Communities Divided Over COVID Vaccination In Rural Montana The COVID-19 vaccination operation at the Flathead County fairgrounds in northwestern Montana can dole out 1,000 doses in seven hours. But demand has plummeted recently, down to fewer than 70 requests for the shots a day. So, the county dropped its ...
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They're Not Anti-Vaccine, but These Parents Are Hesitant About the Covid Shot On May 4, Dr. Hina Talib, who goes by the handle @teenhealthdoc on Instagram, asked the parents among her 33,000 followers if they were hesitant to get the coronavirus vaccine for their 12- to 15-year-olds, and if so, why. Dr. Talib, who is a physician in the ...
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Covid vaccines do not harm placenta, contrary to social media misinformation, study finds (CNN) There's no biological basis behind ongoing social media claims that Covid-19 vaccines can harm the placenta, the organ that provides a growing baby oxygen and nutrients during pregnancy. "There's no theoretical reason to believe these vaccines ...
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Gene Therapy Uses HIV to Rescue Kids Born Without Immune System By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Cora Oakley is a rough-and-tumble 4-year-old who loves gymnastics and outdoor activities, particularly if it involves bouncing on a trampoline. It's hard ...
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Kids as young as 12 will soon get the Covid-19 shot in America. Elsewhere, entire populations are still waiting (CNN) Kids as young as 12 will soon be able to get the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the United States, marking another milestone in the country's already record-breaking vaccination campaign.
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In Girls as Young as 7, Weight May Predict Odds for Eating Disorder By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, May 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Could there be a way to tell years in advance which girls are more likely to develop eating disorders? New research from Denmark suggests that childhood body ...
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A New Study Points to MDMA as a Powerful Treatment for PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), will affect some 26 million Americans at some point in their lives, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The condition, characterized by depression, hopelessness, memory problems, difficulty maintaining ...
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Most Severe COVID Cases Involve Neuro Issues, and They're More Often Fatal By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, May 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Neurological problems are occurring in a very high percentage of hospitalized COVID-19 patients — and what's worse, those symptoms foretell a bad end ...
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A popular vacation destination in India faces a devastating surge of infection. With India in the grip of a devastating coronavirus outbreak, 26 people died at the state-run Goa Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday morning, possibly because of an oxygen shortage, one official said.
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Do Prescription Sleep Medicines Even Work? Comparing a group of about 200 women who were medicated for sleep problems with over 400 women who had sleeping problems but did not take medication, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that sleep meds don't seem to be ...
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UK teen died on school trip after teachers allegedly refused her pleas for a doctor Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A 17-year-old British girl died from sepsis during a school trip to the Big ...
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Medicare Requires Nursing Homes to Report COVID Vaccinations WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare will require nursing homes to report COVID-19 vaccination rates for residents and staff, the government said Tuesday. Officials hope to nudge facilities to keep giving shots as the worst ravages of the pandemic ease, but the ...
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This is how officials are trying to rally teens to get Covid-19 vaccinations "Here we have to speak not only to the patient, the adolescent, but also their parents and guardians to make the case simultaneously to both," Dr. Nirav Shah, president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, said Tuesday.
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Disease-related risk management is now a thing, and this young startup is at the forefront Charity Dean has been in the national spotlight lately because she was among a group of doctors, scientists and tech entrepreneurs who sounded the pandemic alarm early last year and who are featured in a new book by Michael Lewis about the U.S. ...
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Dermatologists warn against TikTok sunscreen contouring hack A new sunscreen contouring "hack" gaining popularity on TikTok has experts warning users to be very cautious about skin damage. TikTok user Eli Withrow shared a technique that she's convinced gives your face a chiseled, radiant boost. She advised that if ...
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Neurological symptoms occur often in COVID-19, increase in-hospital mortality Neurological manifestations occurred frequently in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and correlated with increased in-hospital mortality, according to findings from a multicohort study published in JAMA Network Open. The study also showed a relationship ...
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As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, we answer 7 lingering vaccine questions Vaccine supply is beginning to outstrip demand in the United States, so public health officials are getting creative in order to get shots into arms, including setting up pop-up clinics at such events as this Seattle Mariners game on May 5.
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Deadly 'black fungus' cases add to India's covid crisis The culprit was a deadly fungal infection called mucormycosis that physicians say is increasingly preying on people with immune systems weakened by covid-19 and the steroids used to treat it.
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Living with OCD: Fear of manifesting my thoughts A few years ago, I read "The Secret." It confirmed something I thought to be true for many years: that everything bad that happened to me, or to other people, was my fault. Just before Christmas Day in 2004, I had a nightmare about a flood that came out of ...
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No link between NSAIDs, more severe COVID-19 There is no association between the use of NSAIDs and increased COVID-19 severity or mortality, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology. "Studies of patients with non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infection have found associations between ...
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Washington state won't yet consider a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in schools Teens ages 16 and up are already eligible, but immunizing younger adolescents and teenagers could be critical to returning to some sense of normality in schools nationwide. Like the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the two other ...
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It's Time to Switch to Mineral Sunscreen — Here Are 11 Options to Try In a bid to find a safe, environmentally responsible sunscreen that completely rubs in, I spoke with dermatologists and skin care experts, scoured resources, like the Environmental Working Group (EWG) sunscreen guide, and tested a mix of products myself.
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Michigan COVID: Here's what to know May 11, 2021 DETROIT – The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Michigan has risen to 867,341 as of Tuesday, including 18,338 deaths, state officials report. Tuesday's update includes a total of 1,992 new cases and 99 additional deaths, of which ...
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Will California teens need COVID vaccine to return to school in fall? For now, a requirement for middle and high schoolers this fall seems quite unlikely. Regulatory and legislative processes that would take months to work through stand in the way, and there's little appetite now even among California's most ardent vaccine ...
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Pressure builds for CDC to update indoor-mask requirements for vaccinated people "We should not undersell the vaccines. They offer excellent protection," said Linsey Marr, an expert in virus transmission at Virginia Tech. "I think we can really start thinking about ending mask mandates once everyone who wants to be vaccinated has had a ...
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'Lost' microbes found in ancient poop could relieve chronic illness Study first author Marsha C. Wibowo pictured working on the research. (CNN) Scientists working with samples of ancient feces have found previously unknown microbes ...
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Gene Therapy Uses HIV to Rescue Kids Born Without Immune System WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Cora Oakley is a rough-and-tumble 4-year-old who loves gymnastics and outdoor activities, particularly if it involves bouncing on a trampoline. It's hard to tell from looking at her that she was born without an ...
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Ultrasensitive antigen test detects SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses The test is sensitive enough to detect and identify individual viral antigens one by one in nasal swab samples. This ultrasensitive technique could eventually be developed as a molecular diagnostic tool for point-of-care use.
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Individuals With Sleep Disorders Incur Significantly Higher Health Care Costs The study examined differences in health expenditures in similar patients with and without a sleep disorder diagnosis, as determined by their ICD-10 diagnosis code. The researchers used data from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, ...
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Hull firm develops music app to cut staff and patient stress Doctors are trialling a music app which creates personalised playlists to help patients and hospital staff relax. MediBeat analyses information about users, such as age, gender and ethnicity, to select songs designed to help reduce anxiety and stress.
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France virus cases rise at slowest pace in nearly a year As France exited its third lockdown a week ago and is hoping to gradually unwind all its major restrictive measures by the end of next month, Prime Minister Jean Castex said COVID-19 indicators showed the situation was improving.
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LA County could see coronavirus herd immunity by July: health official Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel reacts to FDA authorization of Pfizer vaccine for kids between the ages of 12 and 15. Los Angeles County could reach coronavirus herd immunity by mid ...
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AIDS virus used in gene therapy to fix 'bubble baby' disease A smiling Josselyn Kish in January 2020. Josselyn Kish in January 2020. As a baby, Josselyn suffered rashes, painful shingles and frequent diarrhea, but after gene therapy "she was better right away," said her mother, Kim Carter.
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Lab reveals how an oral antiviral drug confuses the replication machinery of SARS-CoV-2 A University of Alberta virology lab has uncovered how an oral antiviral drug works to attack the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in findings published May 10 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The researchers demonstrated the underlying mechanism of action by ...
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Gene-Targeted Drug Shows Promise Against a Form of Pancreatic Cancer By Ernie Mundell and Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporters. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, May 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There may be new hope for patients with a subset of pancreatic cancers tied to certain genetic mutations, a new study finds. The study ...
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CDC risk of coronavirus transmission outdoors greatly exaggerated, bombshell report finds The CDC has cited the estimate to back up its recommendation that vaccinated individuals do away with masks in certain outdoor situations, but should keep wearing masks during others. According to the Times, the 10% ...
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Men with obesity may be more likely to die from COVID than women, study finds. Why? This type of fat distribution is known to have greater inflammatory properties and have negative impacts on lung function, all of which exacerbate COVID-19. The study was published May ...
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Nearly 50 babies develop a working immune system after receiving a gene therapy using the AIDS virus All but two of the 50 children who were given the experimental therapy were cured of 'bubble baby' disease. Josselyn Kish suffered rashes, painful shingles and frequent diarrhea until she received gene therapy, said her mother, Kim Carter. Family photo via ...
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'A toxic cocktail:' Panel delivers harsh verdict on the world's failure to prepare for pandemic WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is up for re-election next year. The panel proposes limiting future WHO heads to a single seven-year term. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images ...
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Long term use of prescription meds for insomnia not linked to better quality sleep Disturbed sleep—difficulty falling and/or staying asleep and waking early—is common. An estimated 9 million adults in the US alone say they take prescription meds to try and get a good night's sleep.
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Should your teen get the COVID-19 vaccine now that it's authorized for ages 12-15? This follows the emergency use authorization of the vaccine for people ages 16 and older in December. Once the CDC also authorizes the vaccine for this age group, vaccinations could begin within days. Texas also would have to increase eligibility for the ...
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COVID-19 vaccine does not damage the placenta in pregnancy "We have reached a stage in vaccine distribution where we are seeing vaccine hesitancy, and this hesitancy is pronounced for pregnant people," said study co-author Dr. Emily Miller, Northwestern Medicine maternal fetal medicine physician and assistant ...
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Any COVID-19 Infection Raises Odds for Lingering Symptoms, Study Finds By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, May 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Serious cases of "long-haul COVID-19" are rare in patients who were not hospitalized after their infection, but these patients still report more doctor or ...
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State drops COVID-19 vaccine freeway message that Arizona senator likens to communism "Our overarching point with these messages is clear and unchanged: Arizonans should get the COVID-19 vaccine," CJ Karamargin, a spokesman for Gov. Doug Ducey, wrote in an email Tuesday.
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Pregnant women hospitalized for COVID-19 infection do not face increased risk of death In fact, they may have significantly lower death rates than their non-pregnant counterparts. That is the finding of a new study published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM).
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Hoboken Lists Where Teens, Adults Can Get COVID Vaccine This Week HOBOKEN, NJ — The city of Hoboken and local pharmacies are planning to offer the Pfizer vaccine to Hoboken residents age 12-15 this week, and they can get appointments already, the city announced Tuesday. While the FDA has approved the vaccine for ...
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Woman gets 6 doses of COVID-19 vaccine at once The accident happened Sunday (May 9) at the Noa Hospital in Tuscany, Italy, according to CBS News. The nurse administering the vaccine mistakenly injected the woman with an entire vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which contains six doses.
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New mothers twice as likely to have post-natal depression in lockdown Almost half (47.5%) of women with babies aged six months or younger met the threshold for postnatal depression during the first COVID-19 lockdown, more than double average rates for Europe before the pandemic (23%), finds a new study led by UCL ...
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When Can Children Under 12 Get the COVID-19 Vaccine? Here's What to Know But a large segment of the population has yet to be vaccinated. Many of those are children and younger adolescents, who were not eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Until this week.
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Social vulnerabilities associated with low vaccination rates among older Americans Counties with low COVID-19 vaccination rates have significantly higher percentages of older adults living with certain social vulnerabilities, such as lack of access to a computer, according to CDC researchers. In a new MMWR report, the researchers also ...
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